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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
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Men talk of finding God, but no wonder it is difficult He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
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The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?
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My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.
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The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
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The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!
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Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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